Pasta Spinach with Cavatappi, Reser's Fine Food, item # 71117.14163, 2/4.5 # packages.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 August 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Pasta Spinach with Cavatappi Reser's Fine Food is recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. The pasta salad contains spinach that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
The record
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Product
Pasta Spinach with Cavatappi, Reser's Fine Food, item # 71117.14163, 2/4.5 # packages. UPC 0 71117 14163 4. Product is pasta salads with vinaigrette dressings and vegetables including spinach. All products are in white plastic tubs with labeled lids packed 2/4.5 # to a corrugated case. Product is not labeled for retail sale. Refrigerated and ready to eat product.
UPC
071117141634
Reason for recall
Pasta Spinach with Cavatappi Reser's Fine Food is recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. The pasta salad contains spinach that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
Distributed in AZ, CA, GA, ID, KS, MI, MT, NV, OK, OR, TX, UT, and WA. International country including CANADA
Initiated
17 August 2018
Reported by FDA
29 August 2018
Terminated
5 November 2018
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
Expiration date 9/12/2018, Lot # 180912010 Expiration date 9/18/2018, Lot # 180918010
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
This is one of 4 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 4 of them.
The recall ran for 3 months, from 17 August 2018 to termination on 5 November 2018. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
The distribution pattern names 11 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 12 days after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
21 CFR 117.10
Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
21 CFR 112
Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
21 CFR 117 subpart G
Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
21 CFR 117.10 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
